Declan Groesbeck was raised in the blistering heat of Scottsdale Arizona. He is a Junior Chemistry major with a Physics minor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute Indiana. Declan also competes on the track and field team at Rose-Hulman. He has previously done research on the use of Titanium dioxide as a photocatalyst for the decomposition of dyes. His current research under Dr. Wu at The Ohio State University focuses on how to make hybrid chiral perovskite nanowires.